This is probably a no-brainer for hard-core Drupal theme designers, but for the common folk who are not intimately familiar with the innards of Drupal and the subtleties of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), I suspect this might be quite useful.

Have you ever wondered why many Drupal themes use the standard menu formatting even though they may be radically different in many other ways?  Well, based on my personal experiences with Drupal themes, I suspect the following may explain why this happens in a lot of cases.

I don't know how many times I've tried to give the menus a different look by fooling with the CSS and ended up frustrated and perplexed when the changes did not "take."  It seems I could never get the menus to look like I expected them to.  There were always problems getting the menu views to look the same in both Firefox (FF) and Internet Explorer (IE).  The majority of the time, the changes gave the expected results in FF but there were always problems with IE.  Bullets and icons were never positioned as expected and sometimes would not appear at all.  Tweaking the margin and padding values to get the desired result in IE would invariably cause layout problems in FF.

I joined the Drupal Association today.  The cost of membership is $30.00 US or so, depending on the exchange rate between the Euro and the US Dollar.  Membership doesn't get you much except for one important thing...the knowledge that you have at least given back something in appreciation of all the work involved in producing an excellent (and free) CMS software package that makes one's life a lot easier when creating web sites with dynamic content.